All pieces are measured frame edge to frame edge
PART ONE: ABSTRACT CONTEMPORARY ART
1. Luciano Castelli, Swiss (1951 - ) Insured $ 15,000, Offered $9,775
Luciano Castelli became well known between 1979 and 1983 as a representative member of the Berlin expressive, gestic school of painting, known as the New Wilds (neo fauves). But he had already established an earlier artistic career in Lucern, around Franz Gertsch, and in 1972 he had sculptures in the first "documenta" exhibition there. In addition, his friendship with the Parisian photographer Pierre Mollinier had led to an early encounter with photography.
While sculptures, paintings and large-format drawings soon found their way into international exhibitions - at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshorn Museum in Washington and the Musée de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, for example . The Musée de la Photographie Européene in Paris opened with his work. In the tradition of self-portrait he places his person in the scene, in a photograph, on the canvas or on paper, transformed, made-up or masked, thus inventing himself and others as objects of desire. Courtesy of Galerie Ro
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from Mutual Art:
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| Luciano Castelli 1988 52" x 42" Luciano & Salomé, Oil Crayon & Gouache on Arches Paper |
2. Sergei Bugaev AFRIKA Insured $24,000 Offered $10,000
Afrika (real name Sergei Bugaev) (born 28 March 1966) is a Russian artist.He was born in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, and in the early 1980s moved to Leningrad, where he met and became friends with leaders of the art scene there, such as the painter Timur Novikov and musician Boris Grebenshchikov. Shortly thereafter he adopted the artistic moniker "Afrika" and began working as an artist himself. In 1987 he starred as Bananan, the lead character in the groundbreakingly avant garde film Assa by Russian film director Sergei Solovyov.
Afrika works mainly in performance and installation art. His 1993 project "Krimania" took the form of an initial performance, which involved the artist spending three weeks in a mental institution in Simferopol, Crimea, at the end of which he staged an exhibition for the patients and staff of the hospital.
The second part of the project was a major exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK), entitled "Krimania: Icons, Monuments, Mazáfaka." The work addresses the issue of collective versus individual identity of the Soviet citizen after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
In 1999 Afrika represented Russia at the 48th Venice Biennale. He currently lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Miami and New York. Wikipedia
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| Sergei Bugaev/Afrika MOSCOW 29" x 40 1/2", Oil on Canvas |
3. Elvira Bach SOLD
Elvira Bach (born 22 June 1951 in Neuenhain, Germany) is a postmodernist German painter known for her colourful images of women.[1][2] A member of the Junge Wilde art movement, she lives and works in Berlin.[2] wikipedia |
| Elvira Bach 1987 17" x 21" Gouache on Paper |
4. Philip Braham Insured $ 2,400 Offered $ 975
Philip Braham is a British painter. Philip Braham has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Royal Scottish Academy. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'SULPHUR WIND' sold at McTear's 'The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction (Sunday)' in 2014. There have been Several articles about Philip Braham, including 'Visual art reviews: Heirlooms | The Garden of Eichstatt 1613 | In Japan | Philip Braham' written by Duncan Macmillan for The Scotsman in 2011.mutualart
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| Philip Braham Oil on Paper |
Previous works purchased at the Raab Galerie, London
5. Fred Stonehouse SOLD
Born in 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fred Stonehouse's interest in mysticism and the other worldly started early. In his youth, he was surrounded by Sicilian family members telling stories of psychic visions, ghosts, the evil eye, and saints of the Catholic Church. These stories blended with his own biographical anecdotes, to develop a self styled mythology based in a kind of dream logic. Nonsensical narratives become completely rational in the imagined world of his art, as if when a thing appears in a dream as something else but is still intuitively understood to be the thing replaced. Stonehouse uses this dream logic, similar to the Magical Realism of Latin American literature, to fashion surreal characters steeped in uncertain allegory that are at once touching, cynical, humorous, and filled with despair.
Fred Stonehouse's work has been widely exhibited around the world. It can be found in the collections of the singers Sheryl Crow and Madonna as well as the Milwaukee Art Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. His work has also appeared in the pages of Blab! and Juxtapose magazines. IPCNY |
| Fred Stonehouse 1989 Acrylic on Wood |
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| 8" x 10 1/2" |
6. Stephen Westfall Insured $1200, Offered $400
Born: 1953
Hometown: Schenectady, New York, NY
Lives and Works: New York, NY
Education:
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Stephen Westfall Bio
About The Artist
Artist and art critic
Stephen Westfall describes himself as a "Poppish, post-minimalist
geometric painter." He insists that the unique way in which he skews and
manipulates the shapes in his colorful, hard edge geometric paintings
is the result of undiagnosed "ADD and symptoms of dyslexia." Instead of
working on one painting at a time, he simultaneously works in segments
on several, creating disjointed grids and vibrant canvases. Westfall’s
paintings resemble semaphores, but their apparently simple patterning,
upon closer inspection, reveals their juxtapositions and intersections
of color to be incredibly complicated and highly considered, undermining
the viewer’s expectations at every juncture. Works such as his 2009 oil
and alkyd painting Soon use a repeating square motif to
provide some sense of concrete firmament, while the X-shaped motif
below, in yellow, red, blue, green, and white, shifts maniacally,
destabilizing the image with kaleidoscopic movement.
Westfall
is the recipient of the 2009 Rome Prize Fellowship and was a Guggenheim
Fellow in 2007, as well as the Award in Painting from the National
Academy of Arts & Letters. His work is found in the collections of
The Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the
Whitney Museum of American Art, the Bon Marche, and the Library of
Congress. He has exhibited internationally since the mid-1980s.
Stephen Westfall Gallery Art
Galleries
Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
Stephen Westfall Permanent Collections
Select Permanent Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bon Marche, Paris, France
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Rubin Museum, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA artspace
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bon Marche, Paris, France
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Microsoft, Seattle, WA
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Rubin Museum, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA artspace
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| Stephen Westfall 1984 10" x 13 1/2" Oil on Paper |
7. Mikhail Gubin Insured $ 1200, Offered $ 475
Bio/Resume
MIKHAIL GUBIN was born in Kharkov,
Soviet Union /now Ukraine/ in 1953. For period of time 1961-1970 Mikhail
has attended art school and private training workshops in art and
photography. In the period of 1978-1981 he attended Art and Tech College
in Zagorsk at Moscow region. He brought his family to New York in 1989
and became a U.S. citizen in 1995. In current of the next years until
today Mikhail actively pursue an art. His activities include painting,
drawing, collage, sculpture and photography.
Throughout of his residence in the USA he has had 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows. His memberships include Audubon Artists Inc, Silvermine Guild of Artists and National Collage Society.
Throughout of his residence in the USA he has had 30 solo exhibitions and participated in more then 200 group shows. His memberships include Audubon Artists Inc, Silvermine Guild of Artists and National Collage Society.
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| Mikhail Gubin Oil on Canvas 15" x 12" New York Prince St |
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